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Re:Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018) by brandmeyer on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:21AM (#21594229)
No, that's not pedantic, its a fair point.

acq/rel remains efficient on a platform that doesn't need barriers to implement it (ie, x86).

consume remains efficient on a platform that doesn't need barriers to enforce a dataflow dependency (ie, ARMv7).

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